دین

دین (din) (definite accusative دینی (dini), plural دینلر (dinlər))

1. Arabic spelling of din (“religion”)

Compare Persian دین (din, “religion”), Parthian 𐫅𐫏𐫗 (dyn, “religion”), Avestan 𐬛𐬀𐬉𐬥𐬁 (daēnā, “religion, vision”).

• IPA^(key): /diːn/

دین (dîn)

1. religion

   Synonym: ئایین (ayîn)

Borrowed from Arabic دِين (dīn, “religion, creed”), with some influence from Middle Persian [script needed] (dyn' /⁠dēn⁠/), which developed from Old Persian *dainah (“a religious-informed or conscientious way of life”).

دین • (din) (definite accusative دینی (dini), plural ادیان (edyân))

1. religion, faith, belief in a spiritual or metaphysical reality, accompanied by practices or rituals pertaining to the belief

   Synonym: مذهب (mezheb)

• Turkish: din
• → Albanian: din

Borrowed from Arabic دَيْن (dayn, “debt, obligation”).

دین • (deyn) (definite accusative دینی (deyni), plural دیون (düyun))

1. (finance) debt, money that a person or entity owes or is required to pay to another, generally as a result of a loan or other financial transaction

   Synonym: بورج (borc)

2. debt, obligation, an action, state of mind, or object one has an obligation to perform for another, adopt toward another, or give to another

   Synonym: بورج (borc)

• Turkish: deyn

From Middle Persian [script needed] (dyn' /⁠dēn⁠/), from Old Persian *dainah (“a religious-informed or conscientious way of life”), already influenced by Avestan 𐬛𐬀𐬉𐬥𐬁 (daēnā, “religion, vision”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-Iranian *dʰayHanā- (compare Sanskrit ध्यान (dhyāna)), and Semitic words, see Arabic دِين (dīn), from which the broken plural ادیان (adyân) is borrowed.

دین • (din) (plural دین‌ها (din-hâ), or ادیان (adyân))

1. religion
   • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume II, verse 1770:

     ملت عشق از همه دینها جداست
     عاشقان را ملت و مذهب خداست

     millat-i 'išq az hama dīnhā judā-st
     'āšiqān rā millat u mazhab xudā-st

     The religion of Love is apart from all religions:
     for lovers, the (only) religion and creed is—God.

• دیندار (dindâr)
• دینور (dinvar)
• بهدین (beh-din)
• بی‌دین (bi-din)

• Judeo-Persian: דין (dīn)

Borrowed from Arabic دَيْن (dayn).

دین • (dayn / deyn) (Tajik spelling дайн)

1. loan

   زیر دین کسی ― zir-e deyn-e kasi ― in debt to someone

2. debt

• → Bengali: দেনা (dena)
• → Urdu: دین (dain)

From Sanskrit दीन (dīna).

دین • (dīn) (Hindi spelling दीन)

1. poor
2. needy
3. indigent
4. distressed

From Sanskrit दिन (dina).

دین • (dain) (Hindi spelling दैन)

1. daily
2. diurnal

Borrowed from Classical Persian دِین (dīn), from Middle Persian dyn' (dēn).

دین • (dīn) m (Hindi spelling दीन)

1. faith
2. religion

From Arabic دَيْن (dayn).

دین • (dain) m (Hindi spelling दैन)

1. debt
2. loan

From Sanskrit दीन (dīna).

دین • (dain) m (Hindi spelling दैन)

1. poverty
2. misery
3. lowliness